Definition of "crowbar" [crow•bar]

• A straight bar of iron or steel, with the working end shaped like a chisel and often slightly bent and forked, used as a lever. (noun)
• To extract, remove, or insert forcibly: "[The newsmagazines] can crowbar stories in as late as Sunday and still be out on Monday” ( Edwin Diamond). (verb-transitive)

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• "Grab the crowbar from the inventory and use it to open the crate."
• "But a couple of young men stopped, took a crowbar from the boot of their car (yes, you might ask why they had such a tool available) took the drain cover off and rescued the duckling."
• "Besides, the New York Times always uses the word crowbar to describe the schooling of prominent politicians ... just like they used cocain and alcohol to describe the life-student schooling of President Bush, who graduated from AA State at the young age of 40."